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Chipmaker Meets Expectations
News The chipmaker's second-quarter net income totalled $32m, a nine cent per share profit, on revenue of $1.3bn for the quarter, which ended on 27 June. On average, 28 analysts polled by Thompson First Call expected AMD to report a nine cents per share...
[July 15, 2004, 14:35]
Motorola Buys Wireless Chipmaker
News Motorola has bought wireless chipmaker XtremeSpectrum, in a move that could let it jump to market with superfast wireless broadband technology -- but could also give it a standards headache. The company said on Monday that it had purchased...
[November 11, 2003, 11:45]
Chipmaker Gets A Jump On Safer Wireless
News Atheros was the first chipmaker to begin shipping silicon using the 802.11a standard, another approved wireless networking standard. American company Altheros Communications has begun shipping the first chipset to run part of the new 802.11g fast...
[March 12, 2002, 17:09]
European Chipmaker Strengthens Indian Presence
News European chipmaker STMicroelectronics on Thursday opened its third design and development centre in India. The chipmaker already has approximately 1,400 researchers and chip designers in India. The new centre, an extension of the company's existing...
[February 20, 2004, 10:40]
Bluetooth Chipmaker Buys Into GPS
News CSR has until now been known primarily as a Bluetooth chipmaker. A UK chip manufacturer is promising low-cost GPS for mobile phones in the near future, following its acquisition of two firms in the GPS field.
[January 15, 2007, 12:32]
Chipmaker Wants To Revive The Free PC
News ZF Linux Devices is attempting to resurrect the free PC movement by cutting costs like never before. The 5-year-old company, which makes a low-cost microprocessor called the MachZ, has developed a blueprint for an inexpensive PC called the Z-Port.
[February 14, 2001, 8:47]
Microtune Doubles Damages Against Rival Chipmaker
News Chipmaker Microtune announced that it has won double the damages it sought in a patent infringement case against rival Broadcom. A jury found that a Broadcom tuner chip infringed on a patent owned by Microtune.
[August 18, 2003, 14:30]
UK Chipmaker Ships 10-millionth Bluetooth Chip
News Cambridge Silicon Radio (CSR) said it has shipped its 10-millionth Bluetooth chip, the latest indication of the wireless technology's gradual rise into the mainstream. However, Bluetooth's ongoing success is increasingly being called into doubt by...
[May 29, 2003, 16:32]
Linux: A Chipmaker's Best Friend
News In a sign of how strategic Linux has become, AMD and Intel are angling to lure open-source programmers to their future chip designs. Linux--with a strong developer community and a flexibility that allows the Unix clone to run on numerous chips--has...
[September 3, 2001, 8:41]
IPod Chipmaker Plans To Cash In
News More recently, Carlsen was CFO at laptop chipmaker Transmeta. PortalPlayer, the Silicon Valley company whose chip powers the iPod, is looking to play its tune for Wall Street. PortalPlayer filed registration papers last week with the Securities and...
[August 12, 2004, 8:50]
AMD Goes 'Live' With Media-centre Offerings
News AMD unveiled its AMD Live PC and AMD Live Entertainment Suite on Wednesday, putting the chipmaker into direct competition with archrival Intel in the digital entertainment arena. The chipmaker is also launching AMD Live Entertainment Suite, which...
[May 31, 2006, 15:35]
Intel Juices Celerons For Budget PCs
News The chipmaker introduced two new Celeron processors running at 2.1GHz and 2.2GHz, the fastest Celeron chips to date. An Intel representative said the chipmaker expects HP and NEC to offer desktops with new Celerons soon.
[November 22, 2002, 8:16]
MediaQ Chip Pushes Into Low-end PDAs
News MediaQ, a small chipmaker that creates graphics accelerators for handheld devices, is expected to launch a new chip next week that could challenge Texas Instruments and Intel. The chipmaker's current graphics chips are used in a number of different...
[May 14, 2003, 10:49]
Intel Boosts Pentium M Power
News The chipmaker had been selling Pentium M chips at speeds of up to 1.6GHz. As expected, the chipmaker on Monday launched three new Pentium M processors running at higher clock speeds and cut prices on existing versions of the chip.
[June 3, 2003, 7:52]
Intel Offers Handheld Battery Life Boost
News The chipmaker has developed a new XScale PXA processor, which is meant to improve the battery life of devices while doubling -- from 100MHz to 200MHz -- the speed at which the processor can communicate with other components within the device, such...
[January 29, 2003, 15:09]
Intel Previews Prescott Ambitions
News The chipmaker expects that Prescott processors will be found in 60 percent of performance desktop PCs sold in 2004, while a Celeron derivative of the chip will garner 40 percent of lower-priced desktop machines, Otellini said.
[November 21, 2003, 9:20]
Intel Promises McKinleys Galore
News Intel, the world's largest chipmaker, will reveal what it's been up to lately at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF) in San Francisco later this month. The chipmaker is betting that when the turnaround begins, companies that build networking and...
[February 14, 2002, 8:47]
Broadcom Sues Microtune Over Patents
News Communications chipmaker Broadcom has sued rival Microtune, alleging that Microtune's power amplifiers, tuners and Bluetooth products violate Broadcom patents. The chipmaker is currently a plaintiff or defendant in patent lawsuits involving Intel...
[January 28, 2003, 8:25]
Group Aims For Quicker Chipmaking Fixes
News A group of companies including chipmaker AMD is mounting a new effort to create smarter semiconductor-manufacturing equipment. Currently, when a piece of chipmaking equipment acts up, the chipmaker needs to dispatch a technician--one of its own or...
[December 24, 2001, 11:13]
AMD Opens Up Chip Design On Two Fronts
News The chipmaker now has five PC and server processor design teams of varying sizes. The chipmaker this summer established a new chip design team at its Boston Design Centre here, a continent away from its Silicon Valley base, as part of a worldwide...
[September 21, 2004, 14:25]
